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 Superstition from the thraldom of Satan. Of the fifty languages spoken in India, twenty-five have been acquired by the missionaries. Six hundred Hindoos have renounced their gods; fifty have become missionaries. Schools for children are earnestly solicited from the missionaries; and, moreover, the government of the country is now countenancing and aiding the labour of the missionaries.

know that we are approaching Juggernaut, and yet we are more than fifty miles from it, by the human bones which we have seen for some days strewed by the road. At this place we have been joined by several large bodies of pilgrims, perhaps 2000 in number, who have come from various parts of Northern India. Some of them with whom I have conversed, say that they have been two months on their march, travelling slowly in the hottest season of the year, with their wives and children. Some old persons are among them, who wish to die at Juggernaut. Numbers of pilgrims die on the road; and their bodies generally remain unburied. On the plain by the river, near the pilgrims′ Caravansera at this place, there are